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Consumer graphics drivers pay special mind to game performance, and NVIDIA actually focused on a very specific title when it developed the latest driver for its GeForce series of adapters.
It must be that time of the month because NVIDIA released a new driver for its series of GeForce consumer adapters, among oth... |
26 September 2011
07:31 GMT |
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NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices release new drivers pretty much every month and it seems the former has now completed its newest, WHQL-certified version for the GeForce series of graphics adapters.While there are some ICs (integrated circuits) and PC hardware parts (like RAM) who don't really need a special d... |
19 April 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Even though there is a sort of limit on what size a Pine Trail-based system can have, a certain Chinese PC maker has put together a laptop that uses an Atom CPU while featuring a notebook's size.
As end-users know, the Intel Pine Trail platform is the main one used in today's entry-level systems, both m... |
16 December 2010
02:30 GMT |
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ASUS seems to have joined Gigabyte on the entry-level PC market, although instead of a netbook it has put together a barebone known as S1-AT5NM10E.Barebone PCs are a variation of nettops that have very basic specifications and often lack some of the parts that end-users can choose for themselves and buy separatelyIn... |
13 December 2010
07:08 GMT |
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As the IT market seems to be welcoming new tablets, laptops and video cards in droves, a certain Chinese company decided to change the tune a bit by delivering a new nettop to countries other than its native one.For those that need a reminder or an update, nettop is the term used to define a very specific sort of de... |
10 December 2010
08:14 GMT |
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Since a new video card has now left NVIDIA's nest, it is not unexpected to hear that a new driver version has been created as well, only the 260.89 Beta release does more than just add support for the new card, such as boosting performance in a variety of games.As consumers may or may not know, NVIDIA just rele... |
12 October 2010
10:52 GMT |
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One of the nettops that Acer has been selling for a while in other regions, the so-called Aspire Revo 3700, has now made its way to Europe, where it sells for under $400 and seeks to enchant prospective buyers with promises of both compactness and performance.For consumers interested in a reminder, nettops are more ... |
5 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Though not exactly as widespread as other PCs of small form factors, nettops still have their own niche, and it seems that Acer intends to soon send out another such device, dubbed Aspire Revo 3700 and based on the combination of the Intel Atom D525 and the next generation NVIDIA ION.Nettops are, basically, desktops... |
9 September 2010
04:35 GMT |
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For some time, ASUS has been known to be working on a quite unique netbook, the Lamborghini VX6, and while it has yet to start shipping, the sports car-inspired mobile computer seems to be getting closer to mass availability, even being set up for pre-order.As end-users may know, netbooks, particularly those based o... |
3 September 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Zotac has just finished making the official introduction of its latest nettops, ZBOX HD-ND22, HD-NS21 and ION-ITX O and P series, which combines the performance and feature sets of the Intel consumer low-voltage (CULV) CPUs and NVIDIA's ION graphics.The HD-ND22 and HD- NS21 are powered by the 1.3GHz single-core... |
28 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Though it has yet to actually bring it out, ASUS has given a sort of update on the Lamborghini VX6, a mobile PC which loosely fits into the netbook category, even though it has a larger screen size and distinctly superior specifications compared to its so-called peers.Most of the netbooks unveiled so far have been b... |
23 August 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Giada may not have made any official moves so far, but its Slim-i30 nettop, otherwise known as Slim-N20, seems quite ready to make it to US stores, at least that's what the recent tests it went through under the supervision of the FCC appear to suggest.For a long time, filings submitted by the FCC (Federal Comm... |
20 August 2010
03:37 GMT |
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Shuttle has definitely been taking its time perfecting the passive cooling design, but it seems that it has finally decided to start shipping a certain, quite highly anticipated nettop, known as XS35, which is known for having a totally fanless construction and still provide Full HD multimedia capabilities, thanks t... |
19 August 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Entry-level mobile computers are known for not being very capable when it comes to anything besides document viewing and basic web browsing. Still, even in this market segment, there are those products that can be seen as more high-end than the others, and ASUS is almost ready to bring out one of them, though it may... |
5 August 2010
08:29 GMT |
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Home-Theater personal computers have become a very widespread means of enabling high-quality multimedia at home, thanks to their ability to fit into any environment and, of course, their compactness. Knowing this, various hardware makers periodically unleash HTPC-aimed motherboards and, more importantly, video cards.... |
23 July 2010
04:11 GMT |
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ASUS has definitely resumed its long-lasting string of mobile computer releases, and netbooks are definitely a central part of its marketing strategy for 2010. This can be easily seen from how the Eee PC 1005PX just got listed in Thailand. ASUS has also been talking about the Eee PC 1201PN netbook and the Acer Aspire... |
9 July 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Like all of NVIDIA' partners, Zotac launched a lot of products in its time, including everything from low profile entry-level video boards to the mighty GTX 400 Series or DirectX 11 models. What the company has decided to do this time, on the other hand, doesn't exactly fit any blueprint. In fact, the ... |
30 June 2010
03:39 GMT |
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The past two weeks have been packed with various product launches. Desktops have debuted, laptops made their way to various parts of the world and even more unusual machines, such as dual-touchscreen, keyboardless laptops, have made their presence known. Now, from this veritable chaos, Lenovo has emerged to reestabli... |
21 June 2010
09:54 GMT |
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It is definitely not new for the IT market to learn that a certain product supposedly in development has met its end even before actually making its official debut. Depending on what turn the industry takes, certain devices may no longer fit in with current trends or end up replaced by other prototypes. Sometimes, p... |
21 June 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Though Acer can be said to have been among the most active IT giants on the PC front over the past few days, ASUS did not exactly slack off either. In fact, the PC maker has its own collection of recently showcased netbooks and ultrathins, among other things, and it seems as though the string of official introduction... |
18 June 2010
08:30 GMT |
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When Intel developed its line of netbook-oriented central processing units, it set in place a rule that has come to define the netbook market. That rule is that the screen size of a mobile PC powered by an Atom chip should never surpass 10.1 inches. This was meant to ensure that the market share of larger-format not... |
17 June 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Often, when a company or another comes up with a new idea for a device, said idea is showcased at the next electronics event or a specially set-up event. Other times, said hardware or PC supplier would simply issue a press release describing the electronic. Afterwards, efforts are usually put into bringing said devic... |
14 June 2010
08:39 GMT |
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ASUS ended last year as the second greatest supplier of netbooks and, recently, a report emerged stating that the PC supplier planned to reach a 20% market share by the end of the ongoing year. The company would achieve this by unveiling ultraportables with higher than average specifications. The Eee PC 1201PN that w... |
13 May 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Not content with just offering sneak peeks at upcoming products or only unveiling a PC at a time, Lenovo decided to take advantage of the relative “tranquility” on the IT market to turn heads with a complete product-portfolio update. Having revealed not just new laptops, but also desktop/AiO PCs, the PC s... |
11 May 2010
06:19 GMT |
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Personal computers come in a very impressive variety of shapes and sizes, from large, towering gaming systems to the more unusual ones, which take on the forms of different beasts from the wild. Among all of them, however, there are some that have the uncanny knack to stand out through their ability to escape notice.... |
10 May 2010
10:02 GMT |
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When a consumer is thinking of buying a home-theater personal computer (HTPC), the two main things that are taken into account are the noise output and size. This is because HTPCs always have just enough performance to handle any multimedia files, but they aren't all quiet or space-efficient enough to win th... |
10 May 2010
09:28 GMT |
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Recently, there have been quite a number of rumors about future products, be they PCs or PC components. One of the more noteworthy reports was the one that dealt with a certain laptop that Toshiba might have developed and that might prove to be the lightest and fastest recharging 13-inch model in the world. Now, comi... |
7 May 2010
10:30 GMT |
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Netbooks have, since their inception, been selling strongly thanks to their low prices, long battery life and portability, even in spite of the fact that their actual computing, memory and graphical capabilities were much lower than those of other laptops. Still, as time went by and the market gradually got saturate... |
15 April 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Though it does add a small financial drawback to all personal computers it is installed on, the fact remains that NVIDIA's latest mobile graphics processor, known as the next-generation ION, does deliver on its promise of enabling advanced multimedia capabilities and graphics support to a class of entry-level sy... |
15 April 2010
03:48 GMT |
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The marriage between Internet Explorer 9, Windows 7’s DirectX 11 and NVIDIA ION is essentially a match made in GPU heaven. Even at the level of Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview, IE9 has no match in rival browsers when it comes down to hardware acceleration of HTML5 and SVG. Just check out the video em... |
1 April 2010
11:50 GMT |
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Even though it took a while for its DirectX 11 graphics cards to come to the market, NVIDIA did take the lead in another area, that of netbook graphics, back at the beginning of March, when it made the formal introduction of its next-generation ION graphics solutions. This graphics processor promised to enable a new ... |
1 April 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Even though consumers are so focused on the upcoming launch of Fermi that nothing else seems to matter, as far as NVIDIA is concerned at least, one should not forget that the Santa Clara GPU maker did, in fact, bring forth a number of advancements on the mobile front. The lack of support for DirectX 11 aside, n... |
12 March 2010
06:39 GMT |
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It would appear that Micro-Star International (MSI) is not the only one coming up with netbooks that are larger than the average low-cost personal computer. Taking a shot at the larger form factor is Pioneer Computers, which has just started selling two new models in the DreamBook Series, namely the DreamBook Lite U1... |
10 March 2010
05:16 GMT |
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While NVIDIA may have not made any groundbreaking unveilings at CeBIT when it came to the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 cards, it did bring out a graphics solution aimed at netbooks and entry-level systems. This next-generation ION has already been incorporated in several PCs that will become available over th... |
6 March 2010
05:28 GMT |
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While NVIDIA again refused to hand out any sort of details on the upcoming Fermi cards, it did make a step on the graphics market by introducing the next-generation ION at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany. With a number of companies having already showcased their respective netbooks and other devices running the new gr... |
5 March 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Besides the highly anticipated Fermi architecture, NVIDIA has also built hype around its next-generation ION graphics processor, which will supposedly give netbooks the ability to handle HD content. Now that CeBIT 2010 is finally underway, NVIDIA has finally decided to make the new ION official. The new product is a ... |
2 March 2010
10:43 GMT |
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CeBIT 2010, taking place in Hanover, Germany, has not exactly kicked off yet but, of course, the various hardware makers and PC vendors that are participating have already set up their booths. As such, we had the chance to take a short look at what was going to be on display even before the show started. Having seen ... |
1 March 2010
12:22 GMT |
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Pioneer Computers has already tackled the mobile-computing front, having made available an ARM-powered smartbook not long ago, but it seems that the company isn't going to limit itself to just that one small device. Aiming to tackle a larger part of the mobile computing segment, the PC vendor has started working... |
22 February 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Products based on the next-generation ION 2 platform from NVIDIA have already started coming out, with Acer being among the first to promote the new technology with its Aspire One 532G netbook (recently showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2010). Even so, however, it seems that the “older” ION platform ... |
20 February 2010
06:37 GMT |
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With the Mobile World Congress having kicked off, new technologies, products and announcements are coming out one after another. Companies will be demonstrating a variety of mobile handsets, smartphones and related products, as well as mobile PCs, such as netbooks and convertible tablets. Among the multitude of such ... |
15 February 2010
06:03 GMT |
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SPARKLE has just trumpeted the grand entrance of the CalibreCUTi Supermicro Computer, a small form-factor personal computer that combines the versatility of the NVIDIA ION platform with a dual core chip and a large array of multi-functions, as well as an elegant design and a very low power consumption. The compact PC... |
18 January 2010
10:53 GMT |
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The latest in the LUV Machine line of the Japanese company Mouse Computer is a slim nettop. This PC is designed small and thin enough so that it can be mounted at the back of the display via an attached foot stand. The product is known as the Lm-mini20, runs Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit and has a configuration whose... |
12 January 2010
06:23 GMT |
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The Pineview generation of Atom processors from Intel was recently introduced and most of the media has been focused on the various products launched by hardware makers meant to support the new chips. Still, it seems that motherboard manufacturers aren't exclusively focused on creating products based on Pine Tra... |
28 December 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Intel and NVIDIA seem to be trading barbs recently, with either always managing to somehow point out just what it is that their upcoming or current products can do better in certain areas. Intel, on the one hand, has been definitely delivering breakthroughs in the area of low-power consumption and long battery life. ... |
23 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Not long after NVIDIA revealed the main features of the ION 2 platform, which is set to outmatch even Intel's Pine Trail mobile platform, the latter stepped up to point out those features that may make the former's technology less appealing to netbook buyers. While NVIDIA believes that consumers will be wil... |
23 December 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Hardware developers are still trying to top each other's products and now NVIDIA is giving hints that its ION 2 platform will actually surpass Intel's Pine Trail in both speed and features. The platform can reportedly live on battery power for up to five hours and outperform systems using an Intel Atom cent... |
18 December 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Following the success of its AspireRevo line of nettops, Acer seems to maintain a strong interest in NVIDIA's ION platforms, especially the upcoming second-generation NVIDIA ION 2. The ION 2 is supposedly designed with support for the upcoming Pineview processors from Intel, specifically Atom N450, N470, D510 or... |
7 December 2009
07:47 GMT |
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This product from Asus is a 12.1-inch mobile platform, which, because of its combination of features and despite it being, officially, considered a netbook, is really something in-between a netbook and a notebook. Packing performance in both the area of application running and that of connectivity, the Asus Eee PC 12... |
19 November 2009
09:15 GMT |
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The netbook and nettop market segments continue to grow, as chip makers are expected to update their portfolios with new solutions that should enable better performance and power consumption. Such is the case with graphics chip maker NVIDIA, which is currently expected to update its ION platform with the much-anticip... |
27 October 2009
10:38 GMT |
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One of the upcoming solutions that should make a stand on the market is AMD's RS880, a new integrated package that is reported to come along with the company's new Radeon HD 4200 graphics core. In addition, the product is also said to be able to deliver up to 15 percent more performance than similar solutio... |
4 July 2009
02:59 GMT |
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